A tribunal has reprimanded a Sydney lawyer and fined him $4000 for professional misconduct over his substandard representation in a former Hewlett-Packard employee's redundancy case that he claimed "became too complex".
ASU urges Virgin ground crew to vote down offer; Employer fails to knock out award adverse action claim; and Court fines sham contracting retailer $166,848.
The Federal Court has ordered the CFMEU's mining & energy division to pay a percentage of Rio Tinto subsidiary Bengalla Mining Pty Ltd's legal costs following its unsuccessful adverse action case against the company for issuing a warning letter to its delegate who took unauthorised leave to attend a union meeting.
CEPU (communications division) NSW branch secretary Jim Metcher maintains a Fair Work Commission inquiry into allegations he inappropriately kept board fees is payback from a factional rival, and has denied any wrongdoing.
An employer who discriminated against a printer for caring for his terminally ill partner has been ordered to pay him more than $100,000 in compensation and interest for contraventions of federal equal opportunity laws.
A Productivity Commission report has backed up last week’s ABS data showing a levelling out or falling in the proportion of employees in insecure work and a growth in permanent employment.
In a landmark decision on the National Employment Standards, an FWC full bench has ruled that construction workers engaged by labour hire company Telum Civil (Qld) Pty Ltd on the Origin Alliance Ipswich Motorway upgrade were casuals and therefore not entitled to redundancy pay when they were laid off at the end of the project.
In a message to advocates for adverse action applicants, the Federal Court has sent a shoe repairer's general protections claim back to the Federal Circuit Court for hearing by a different judicial officer, after it found the original judge had failed to properly assess the evidence of her former managers.
A senior Oracle employee awarded $18,000 for sexual harassment by a male colleague is likely to suffer "financially and personally" because of the significant legal costs of pursuing her successful claim, according to Federal Court judge Robert Buchanan.
In what could become a test case on the impact of the High Court's Re AEU decision on agreements between Victorian Government authorities and unions, the Country Fire Authority is arguing before the Federal Court that the landmark 1995 ruling renders invalid the recruitment clauses it agreed to in its 2010 enterprise agreement with the United Firefighters Union.
